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Last week, an organization that used to provide guitar lessons to girls in Afghanistan released a music video featuring those girls. The video was shot prior to the withdrawal of U.S. forces last summer and the subsequent takeover of their country by the Taliban. Miraculous Love Kids, a 501(c)(3) program, is run by Lanny Cordola, an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. The video opens with an introduction by a 16-year-old Afghan girl, who shows pictures that describe the terrible plight that the children of Afghanistan are enduring today: sleeping alone outside in the cold, sitting alone in the snow and...

Iesha White is so fed up with the U.S. response to covid-19 that she’s seriously considering moving to Europe. “I’m that disgusted. The lack of care for each other, to me, it’s too much,” said White, 30, of Los Angeles. She has multiple sclerosis and takes a medicine that suppresses her immune system. “As a Black disabled person, I feel like nobody gives a [expletive] about me or my safety.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a strict definition of who is considered moderately or severely immunocompromised, such as cancer patients undergoing active treatment and organ transplant recipients....

The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, has a new exhibition that will put your skills to the test, according to Gothamist’s Jennifer Vanasco. “Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen” looks at the technology of deepfakes—deceptive videos created using artificial intelligence and machine learning—and how they’re used to manipulate viewers, reports Eileen Kinsella for ArtNet News. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the video In Event of Moon Disaster, a six-minute film produced by the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality, which won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media: Documentary this year, according to ArtDaily. Set in a...

Dr. Benjamin Braddock @GraduatedBen · Feb 23, 2022 CONFIRMED: US Government officials *in the United States* are being moved to secure bunkers as a precaution

As we celebrate Black History Month and the great accomplishments of African Americans to the United States since its founding, I wanted to take a different perspective -- one that focuses on what Black Americans must do to achieve economic and generational prosperity. We must be concerned about the plight of many Black communities in the United States, which are plagued by high poverty, high crime and dismal educational systems. We must first recognize that these issues are neither ordained nor inevitable but rather require significant transformation. This is accomplished by emphasizing faith, family and education as key ingredients in...

Well, for so many years I taught school and every year cheating became less and less stigmatized. Administrators became more and more corrupt as they implemented their agendas, right and wrong be damned, and showed favoritism to certain wealthy and/or athletic individuals. I kept saying their were consequences for this and got thrown out on my head. Now, we are seeing the mother of all cheating consequences with the situation in the Ukraine and probably eventually Taiwan and the rest of Asia. Everyone and their mother's uncle knows Biden and Harris did not win that election and the Democrat Party...

No country on Earth relies entirely on wind and solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle.They are leaders in the Stampede of the Green Lemmings.Solar energy has a huge problem. Even on sunny days, almost nothing is generated to meet the demand peaks around breakfast time and dinner time — the solar energy union only works a six-hour day, goes on strike with little warning, and takes quite a few sickies.So, for at least 18 hours of every day, electricity must come from somewhere else. Then, around noon, the millions of solar panels pour out far more...

The husband of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has said he was “so angry” that actor Alec Baldwin denied responsibility for her death after Baldwin shot her during the filming of the Western “Rust.” In his first interview since filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Baldwin and about two dozen other defendants last week, Matt Hutchins was asked if he had watched Baldwin’s December interview with ABC News in which the actor said he was not responsible for Halyna’s death. “I was just so angry to see him talk about her death so publicly, in such a detailed way and then to...

They seem to bounce and wobble from one side to the next. The drugged-out, half-alive skeletons of Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia make their way past erected tents and filthy sidewalks en route to their next fix. How Kensington Avenue, a poverty-stricken place in one of the most impoverished cities in the country, gets away with brazenly being the center of one of the largest open-air narcotics markets in the United States is frightening, bewildering, and telling. It's a race to the city morgue for many inhabitants of Kensington injecting themselves in broad daylight. And with so many new places like...

Vance has no political experience, so he’s running essentially as an outsider. But his story captured the hearts and minds of millions of Americans with his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy, and the Academy Award-nominated Netflix movie adaptation. With searing eloquence, he describes the challenges and hardships facing working-class America, especially heartland communities decimated by economic and cultural decay. Vance provides a rare perspective given his own unpredictable rise from a troubled family and poor communities to an Ivy League graduate degree and professional success.

Seceded state about to be reacquired by the Union. Which side should we root for?

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the most important metric to me was never cases, but hospitalizations. When dealing with an inevitable endemic respiratory virus that cannot be eradicated, the goal should be shifting disease to mild disease. In the U.S. this has not been an easy task as much of the population have not had to individually risk calculate as extolling these techniques were not a major component of official response (which was heavily “abstinence-only” focused), vulnerable populations such as nursing home residents were not protected, and too many high-risk individuals have shunned the life-saving vaccines.

There is a certain symmetry to the notion that the spokesmouth for the failing Biden administration reportedly is being assiduously courted by the two failing cable news networks, CNN and MSNBC, both of which have endured near-catastrophic ratings declines in the era of Biden. More Biden cowbell...yeah, that's the ticket.A scoop report by Dylan Byers, formerly of NBC and now the founding partner at media website Puck, gushes over Psaki and the reported talks she or her agent are having with the two networks. Earlier this month:CNN interim co-president Amy Entelis and CNN+ programming lead Rebecca Kutler were in Washington...

HALIFAX, Saturday, Feb. 22. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, from Liverpool Feb. 8, at 1 P.M., via Queenstown 9th, arrived here at 9 o'clock this evening. She has forty passengers for Boston, but no specie for that port. She brought £50,000 for Halifax. She passed the Arabia, bound to Liverpool, on the 9th. The Hibernia, from Portland, arrived at Liverpool on the 9th. Six sets of Parliamentary papers concerning the American civil war, &c., have been laid before Parliament. Not fewer than forty-five official communications have passed about the Nashville and Tuscarora. In January, 1861, Earl RUSSELL instructed Lord LYONS,...

BREAKING: Taiwan defense ministry says 9 Chinese military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone

Gab, Twitter, and other social media sites have been brutal today for Biden voters. While some are taking the odd approach of pretending that it’s a good thing Joe Biden is in the White House instead of Donald Trump, most are either silent or changing their tune about the Dear Leader. Some are still idiots, like horror writer Stephen King: Mr. Putin has made a serious miscalculation. He forgot he's no longer dealing with Trump. — Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 23, 2022 Journalist Mike Cernovich summed up the sentiment: You have to own this. All 81,000,000 of you. You destroyed...

We live in an era where the heroes of yesteryear are often vilified. It’s hard to believe that George Washington, “the father of our country,” fits in that category. Barbarians in the streets have even gone after statues of George Washington to topple them. I have recently made a film on George Washington’s life, legacy, and his faith. The film is simply called, “George Washington,” which I made for Providence Forum, founded by Dr. Peter Lillback. This film is one episode of a seven-part Foundation of American Liberty series. What is the foundation of our liberty? Our Judeo Christian heritage....

Throwback Thursday: Remembering the Good Old Days.Remember when Romper Room was a children’s TV show, not the seat of power in Washington D.C.?President Biden’s response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine (paraphrased): “Romper, stomper, bomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do.” We are past the rhetoric and reasonable negotiation stage and headed south fast. It might be time to break out the old Obama Hashtag Diplomacy, demonstrated in 2014 by his State Department Spokesmouth Hashtag Girls:Jen and Marie: State Department tag team TwitsMaybe we can just tweet our way through this latest Russia! Russia! Russia! crisis as well.I’m guessing...

What Led to Canada’s CrisisLast week, the Canadian government invoked the Emergencies Act to break up the Freedom Convoy protests. Officials had accused the protesters—long-haul truckers and citizens gathered in Ottawa to peacefully oppose vaccine mandates—of being Nazis. The Emergencies Act gave the government cover to act without court approval and in defiance of constitutional rights. During the past week, the government used illegally obtained data and a media doxxing campaign to hunt down those who joined or supported the protests, and freeze their assets. The government planned the institutional unpersoning of civil dissidents, their supporters, and their families. Nevertheless,...

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